Colin McCahon, 'Truth from the King Country'; 1978 - Print - wholesale ForHer Rita Cook — was one

Rita Cook — was one of some six hundred pictures that remained in her studio when she died in 1970

From the 50’s her work became increasingly abstract and generalised with rolling hills formed with geometric lines reinforcing ideas about the relationship between infrastructure and the land

the beauty of the human form and that golden light at the end of the day”

Fauvism and two World Wars

Colin McCahon, 'Truth from the King Country'; 1978 - Print - wholesale ForHer Rita Cook — was oneColin McCahon is widely recognised as New Zealands foremost painter. Over 45 years, his work encompassed many themes, subjects and styles, from landscape to figuration to abstraction and an innovative use of painted text. His adaption of aspects of modernist painting to a specific local situation and his intense engagement with spiritual matters, mark him out as a distinctive figure in twentieth century art. He was born in Timaru but worked and lived